Listening to what people are saying, even if they don't hear it
themselves. Telling stories. Breaking down arguments and positions
into their constitutive bits. Getting into trouble. Proving a
catalyst.

When I still was young and innocent, I accidentally spent the night
in a brothel in Tangiers. I didn't understand why one girl kept
talking to me and asking to come up to my room. Not until the next
morning--when I noticed all the same girls from the night before
still standing around the entrance--did I realize what was going
on.